Tchilinghirian/Stephen The Austrian Post Offices in the Levant R

Tchilinghirian/Stephen The Austrian Post Offices in the Levant Revisited by Hans Smith DERZEIT LEIDER VERGRIFFEN 2019, 200 pages, colour, size A4. Tchilinghirian and Stephen began to publish their seminal work "Austrian Post Offices Abroad" in 1963, describing, amongst other things, the over 120 Austrian post offices and postal agencies operating in the Levant, as the Turkish Empire was widely known in those days. A byword and essential tool for collectors of the "Austrian Levant", "Tchilinghirian" is still the only publication on the full subject in English. However, after 50 years, Tchilinghirian and Stephen"s splendid work is now long due for a thorough overhaul, much further knowledge of the subject having been gained in the intervening years. The history and postmarks of the Austrian consular offices, including the postal agencies of the Austrian Lloyd Steam Navigation Company, have now been extensively revised by Hans Smith, a lifetime collector of the area, and has been published in hardback form under the aegis of the Austrian Philatelic Society in Great Britain. The book is written in English and in full colour throughout, with over 200 A4 pages of text and illustrations and a comprehensive listing of all known postmarks of the consular offices. SUMMARY OF CONTENTS Part I deals with the development of the postal service in the Austrian Empire: 1 THE BEGINNINGS, 1490 - 1722 2 TERRITORIAL CHANGES 3 DEVELOPMENT OF A POSTAL SERVICE: 1722-1850 Part II describes the development of different postal services, concentrating on the Austrian Crown Lands 4 LETTER POST (Briefpost) 5 CITY POSTS 6 POSTAL AGENCIES AND POSTAL MESSENGERS 7 REGISTERED POST 8 COACH MAIL (Fahrpost) 9 ENTITLEMENT TO FREE POSTAGE 10 POSTMARKS 11 FOREIGN MAIL 12 DISINFECTED MAIL 13 SHIP MAIL 14 RAILWAYS AND TELEGRAPHS Part III takes each of the Austrian territories in turn and describes their history and postal history, concentrating on differences from the situation in Vienna and Lower Austria. Also included are territories lost by Austria during or before the Napoleonic era, and the provision by Austria of a postal service in Liechtenstein. 15 LOWER AUSTRIA AND VIENNA 16 UPPER AUSTRIA 17 SALZBURG 18 TIROL 19 VORARLBERG 20 STYRIA (STEIERMARK) 21 CARINTHIA (KÄRNTEN) 22 CARNIOLA (KRAIN) 23 THE AUSTRIAN LITTORAL 24 DALMATIA 25 CROATIA-SLAVONIA 26 HUNGARY 27 VOIVODINA 28 TRANSYLVANIA 29 BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA 30 SILESIA 31 GALICIA and BUKOVINA 32 LOMBARDY and VENETIA 33 OTHER AUSTRIAN INVOLVEMENT IN ITALY

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